Word: sections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come. Since its inception in 1971, 500,00 people nationwide have joined in the song and dance of the Revels. I believe they keep coming back All sixteen shows were sold out a long time before the show opened, and everyone there was having a great time. My section was particularly hardcore when it came to audience caroling-there was big-time vibrato and harmonizing going on. And then, like the second paragraph promised, they all got up to dance at the end of the first act. I just barely moved my legs out of the way for my neighbors...
...where have these good germs been lurking all your life? In your intestines, especially the lower section called the colon, which harbors at least 400 species of bacteria. Which ones you have depends largely on your environment and diet. An abundance of good bacteria in the colon generally crowds out stray bad bacteria in your food. But if the bad outnumber the good--for example, after antibiotic treatment for a sinus or an ear infection, which kills normal intestinal germs as well--the result can be diarrhea...
...PROTEUS It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... O.K., it's a plane, named after the sea god who changed shape. This little flyer can too: the middle section and the wings can be adjusted according to the mission the plane is undertaking. And because Proteus can fly so high (about 65,000 ft.) and for so long, potential missions are manifold: atmospheric research, reconnaissance and--designer Burt Rutan hopes--launching vehicles for space tourism. Proteus has the body of an insect but the heart of a jumbo...
...Vanities lives up to all the hype, and then some. It is big (742 pages), crammed with the author's keen and boisterous prose and encyclopedic in its scope. Wolfe believes that novels can still show us the way we live now. His version of a cross section of today's Atlanta proves that his novels certainly...
Andrew Sullivan was no stranger to the AIDS epidemic. After nursing dying friends and seeing familiar names crowd the obituary section, he had intimate knowledge of the disease. It was knowledge, however, that would be foreshadowing. In 1993, Sullivan was diagnosed with HIV. Suddenly, all the friends he had comforted and bereaved families he had consoled were a haunting premonition of his own death...